Danny loves gum. For his birthday several weeks ago I bought him a case of gum. This has been a huge blessing to both him and his brothers and sisters. You would think that a teenage boy, having so much gum, might be smart enough to hide it somewhere in his room to savor for months to come. Not Dan. He left it in plain sight and over the past weeks everyone has taken that as an open invitation to help themselves to his stash. He mentioned only once that his gum seemed to be depleting. Here's the thing. Yesterday while I was at the checkout counter at the grocery store my eyes were drawn to the gum and candy. I picked up a pack of Orbit gum and threw it in my cart. This morning I wrote a little note on the package and slipped it deep in his sock drawer where he would run across it sometime in the next couple of weeks. The note said simply "Because you are such a good sharer, I thought I'd help build up your gum reserve".
As I tucked it away I had a thought. My mind does this a lot. I thought about Heavenly Father and all the blessings that he gives to me. I thought about Danny and how willing he was to share his gum and how I wanted to give him more because I KNEW that he would share. For a moment, I had reason to stop and think. I wondered if I was a good sharer? I felt that I understood how Heavenly Father stands ready to bless us when we are good sharers. It was easy to buy more gum for Danny, not because I felt guilty or because he had begged for more, but because I knew that he had shared what he had and would likely share again.
